woodlark

They will remove small pine that, if left, would swamp the open heath and drive out scarce wildlife such as woodlark, common lizard and a range of attractive butterflies and moths, including the stately Emperor moth.

Express & Star 2010

Peter Szöke, on his bizarre record The Unknown Music of Birds, slows down woodlark song and makes a soloist from the Budapest opera sing it so beautifully that I weep to hear it.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

The tailor drove quietly to church, and the princess was married to him at once, and he lived with her as happy as a woodlark.

Household Tales 2003

A few late blackberries hung down over the grassy bank, and a woodlark sang behind the fence; it might almost have been summer.

The Grey King Susan Cooper 2001

A few late blackberries hung down over the grassy bank, and a woodlark sang behind the fence; it might almost have been summer.

The Grey King Susan Cooper 2001

"I have to admit something to you, young Keisha, " he said at last, after they'd both listened to a woodlark sing until it flew off.

Owlsight Lackey, Mercedes 1998

Because many birds which become silent about Midsummer, reassume their notes in September; as the thrush, blackbird, woodlark, willow-wren,

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 475, February 5, 1831 Various

It sounds like a college fraternity but really means, "My woodlark, what is your name?"

The Cruise of the Kawa 1911

The maiden laughed, a merry laughter like the lilt of a woodlark.

Masters of the Guild L. Lamprey 1910

The warm southern winds were full of their warbling -- beccafico, loriot, merle, citronelle, woodlark, nightingale, -- every tree, copse and tuft of grass held a tiny minstrel.

Masters of the Guild L. Lamprey 1910